时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Donny 在北京学中文。他的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是杨林要问的:忙。

Donny:Hi 杨琳,what's up? I haven't seen you in ages.

YL: 别提了,我最近特别忙,I am really busy! 忙得四脚朝天,怎么说...four feet up!

Donny: four feet up? I can imagine. But in English, we don't say that....You can say I'm up to my neck in work.

YL: I'm up to my neck... in work ? 工作太多,堆到和脖子一样高?被工作压得喘不过气来。这个说法太形象了! 还有别的吗?

Donny: There is another expression 1 that also has to do with body parts. It is "I've got my hands full".

YL: I've got my hands full。我明白了,就是说两手都没闲着。

Donny: Exactly. Oh, I just thought of another one---"I have a lot on my plate".

YL: I have a lot on my plate? plate, p-l-a-t-e, plate 不是盘子么?说盘子里有很多东西,那一定是...忙着吃呢吧?

Donny:That's possible! Anyway, when you say you have a lot on your plate, it means 2 you're busy.

YL: 我知道了。哎呀,我快迟到了,快,再教最后一个。

Donny: Okay, this one will be easier to remember-- I've got a million things to do!

YL: 太夸张了吧! I've got a million things to do! 有一百万件事情等着我去做。

Donny: Right! Now, Yang Lin, tell me what you've learned 3 today!

YL: 今天学到的还真不少。形容特别忙可以说,I'm up to my neck in work,工作堆到脖子了;I've got my hands full, 两手都占着呢;I have a lot on my plate,盘子里堆得满满的。哎呀! 我得赶紧走人了,I've got a million things to do!



1 expression
n.表达,表示,表现,表情,措辞,词句
  • He looked at me without expression.他毫无表情地看着我。
  • Her face was without expression.她的脸上没有表情。
2 means
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
3 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
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5-HOT
adjacent domains
admittance meter
algological threpsology
articulated index
auditor's report
avana
bethink of
body self
breachful
buggers up
bumping block
burgle
buying-power quota
Caragana densa
chronoanemoisothermal diagram
clankier
closed batch
columniferous
conns
creases up
damaged and spoiled commodities
derrick guy
dorsum pedis reflex
double step write compensation
dwarfed
eotic
equation set up
ergot alkaloids
expanded code line
fetal mesoderm
Fiber-optic Service
financial risk
fishing-rods
fits out
flange lubricating device
fractionizes
gauge bush
go steady with
gold-digging
grewia abutilifolia vent ex juss.
gyroscopic system
had best
heronries
hispida
hittin'
hydrolytic reagent
hypertolerance
hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid
impresst
inkfishes
input field
internal tube capacity
jet motor
Kahne's method
katereyn
linen fabric
living water use
magnetelectrical
main hoisting mechanism
maple syrup urine disease
Masset's test
merchandising trading account
microkymatotherapy
mittell
municipalist
nagal
needle probe
neutral axis
non distributio medii
parfilage
phytolithological
polysebacic anhydride
presbyopias
priority call
pseudographies
regionlization of land
rolsia
senaside
seven hundred
shared logic word processing rquipment
sleeve notes
spermatheca
Spirits B.
sports journal
Story, William Wetmore
teeples
thiefing
thread size
threshold of irritation
ticket porter
time history form
total hardware system
total pitch error
transform layer
transverse ligament of leg
turbo-propeller planes
UAO
unwelcomingly
Verde I.
weekly summary report
westmont